Norwegian Wood

Pros

• And then I read Norwegian Wood by Haruki Murakami. ... I was still looking up pretty much every word for a while, but... I started to get interested in the story. And I got more interested in reading the story than in looking up every si...
• Check out Norwegian Wood for an excellent, grounded novel
• Pretty much anything by Haruki Murakami, but Norwegian Wood is his most grounded - it's a love triangle in the sixties.
• books by Haruki Murakami with Norwegian Wood being one of the more well known ones.
• A Norwegian Wood is also good and booze forward; 1 oz Aquavit 1 Applejack 3/4 sweet vermouth 1/4 yellow chartreuse dash ango.

Cons

• I've read a lot of Murakami, but for some reason Norwegian Wood (NW) didn't grab me. I'll try again this year.
• I tried getting into Norwegian wood and red rising but I couldn’t go past 80 pages.
• There’s a whole long ass section of the book where an adult woman tells the tale of how she was seduced by this ridiculous evil caricature of an underaged teenage girl (I think she was like 13???) and it goes into extreme detail on the *...
• What a fucking slog. Sad boy gets laid a bunch but is pining for someone else he can't really have. Also takes the time to tell us what damn near every single meal he has consists of. I swear the book would be at least ten pages shorter...
• The last fiction book I've read was Murakami's Norwegian Wood but that was during the Christmas break. Even then I read the book because I had free time, not because I was entranced in the story.